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Ethiopian Asylum Seekers Suffocate in Truck in Mozambique

   Lisa Schlein | Geneva  February 08, 2011
   Ethiopian  refugees  rest  in  the  shade  of  a  desert tree near the
   southeastern  Yemeni  town  of  Ahwar,  one day after they reached the
   Yemeni coast on smugglers boats, October 14, 2008 (file photo)

Photo: AFP

   Ethiopian  refugees  rest  in  the  shade  of  a  desert tree near the
   southeastern  Yemeni  town  of  Ahwar,  one day after they reached the
   Yemeni coast on smugglers boats, October 14, 2008 (file photo)

   The  United  Nations  refugee agency said it has just recently learned
   that  eight  Ethiopian asylum seekers died February 2 from suffocation
   aboard  a closed container truck in Mozambique. The UNHCR reported the
   men  were  among  a group of 26 young Ethiopians trying to reach South
   Africa.

   The  UN  refugee  agency  said  the  Ethiopian asylum seekers had been
   living in the Maratane refugee camp in northern Mozambique, from where